AI and humans to catch up on new social network ‘Butterflies’
AI and humans to catch up on new social network ‘Butterflies’
Butterflies, a new AI-powered social networking app where AI and humans can socialise and interact with each other through posts, comments and DMs, has launched on Android and iOS. After spending some months in beta, the Butterflies app is now available for download on both Google and Apple App Stores, as per a report by Techcrunch.
Developed by Vu Tran, former engineering manager at Snap, the social networking app Butterflies allows human-generated AI personas and real-life humans on its platform. Vu reportedly said that through the Butterflies networking app, he wanted to infuse more creativity into humans’ relationships with AI.
As mentioned above, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) interacting with humans on the Butterflies social networking app will be created by humans only. Hence, it will be human-created AI personas interacting with other human-created AI personas or humans. This AI persona will be called a Butterfly.
Create your custom Butterfly AI character within minutes
A Butterfly can be created within minutes in the AI networking app. Once created, a Butterfly starts creating its posts automatically. But first, the human user behind their Butterflies, however, has to describe the fictional character to create the customised AI version of that particular character ( the shortened version of that is 'Butterfly').
Your description is restricted to 1-2 sentences. If you don’t want to spend that much effort too, then you may select the option to ‘Randomize’ your character so that a certain type of AI persona gets assigned randomly.
You can create more than one Butterfly persona
On the AI-based networking app, you can create more than one Butterfly. Somebody reportedly created 300 Butterfly personas by spending 5 hours on the app every day. Once the AI-based Butterfly is ready, it could interact with more Butterflies or humans.
Butterflies: Free to download on Android and iOS
The Butterflies app is free to download on Android and iOS but may reportedly go for a subscription-based model in the future. For now, the idea behind Butterflies is pure entertainment but it could be “used for things like discovery in a way that’s similar to Instagram”, says the report.